2 posts tagged “mac mini”
A few people (you know who you are) at the office just picked up an Intel Mac Mini. If you're like me, you have more than a few movies on disk somewhere in formats other than QuickTime (mov). Since Front Row is the best thing since sliced bread, clearly a way to watch these movies with Front Row is in order. A few links:
For those burdened by the unholy cross of the Comcast/Motorola PVR, a bonus link for piping digital HD video from the PVR to your Mac for recording.
That is all.
Music: Pleasurehead/Seafood
Along with Artur, Ben & Mena and Andrew, and about a million other people who bought that first truckload at the Apple Store, I acquired my first piece of Apple hardware in 7 years (the last was a creaky 350mhz blue & white G3).
Brought it home, and immediately fell in love with Front Row. It really is usable as a media center, and aside from my main gripe about not being able to access videos on iTunes shares from my other machines, it's near-perfect in its (rather simple) implementation.
So mucking around with the System Preferences panel, I came across the RSS screensaver module. Hm. After authenticating, I grabbed my Comet friends & family feed and saved it as an RSS bookmark in Safari.
To my surprise, not only did it work flawlessly, but it remembered the authentication cookie. So now whenever my Mac is idle, my living room shines with the most recent posts from my friends & family.
This is a beautiful thing.
